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After

John T. Hitchner

What does she have now?
What remains?
Family pictures:
her wedding—
two families stiff in smiles,
her father a hand and heart away from her mother.
The mountain cabin—
the unmade bed for love
morning, afternoon, evening,
sheets and pillows valleys and mountains,
rain like a waterfall off the roof.
The beach last summer—
the kids building castles and moats.
What protects them now?
The ring on the third finger of her left hand?
Not the letter of notification,
not his medals and coins,
watch and ring.
Not his folded shirts and sweaters,
not his uniform.
They are things,
arms and legs without flesh.
Who, what can she hold now?
Not the letter,
not the uniform,
not the flag.
Only the ring on the third finger of her left hand.
A circle: the beginning of life,
the end of life.
But not the end of love.



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